Arizona State Sun Devils

ASU's New, New Sparky Looks a Lot More Like Old Sparky, a Lot Less Like a Child Predator

Arizona State University announced the new, new costume design for Sparky the Sun Devil that was voted on by fans, and the one that looks the least like a child predator is the costume they're rolling with.Not surprisingly, fans picked the design that looks very similar to the one used in recent yea ... More >>

ASU Opens Voting for Sparky Design to Replace the Child-Predator Costume

Arizona State University has opened the voting process to replace the recently designed costume for Sparky the Sun Devil, and the four options for the new, new Sparky look far less likely to be behind the wheel of a windowless white van, telling children that they have candy and puppies in the back. ... More >>

ASU Calls for a Vote on Sparky's Look, in Place of the New Sex-Offender Buzz Lightyear Design

Believe it or not, the new version of Arizona State University's Sparky mascot, which looks like Buzz Lightyear -- if Buzz Lightyear looked like a registered sex offender with horns -- didn't go over too well with students and fans.Now, the University says it will allow the students and fans to vote ... More >>

Club Candids: Firehouse Tempe

Something unusual has been happening recently inside the establishment on the northeast corner of Mill Avenue and University Drive in Tempe: People are having a blast after dark. Lots of people. Such a thing is commonplace along party-hearty Mill Avenue, given its proximity to Arizona State Univers ... More >>

ASU Pretty Much Ruins Arizona Wildcats' Dream Of Goin' Dancing With Stunner In Tempe

Arizona State's basketball team (the guy's version) has been ranked in the lower realms of all Division I programs this season, and yesterday afternoon's game in Tempe against the Arizona Wildcats had the makings of a butt-whipping--for the Cats.   ​Most of those geeks who study the "B ... More >>

ASU Sun Devils Lose 20th Game Of Season as Arizona Wins Its 20th

We didn't go by the Wells Fargo Arena last night for Arizona State's 66-57 loss to UCLA, but we know a few diehards who tells us that the announced attendance of 5,477 was exaggerated by a whole lot.Head Coach Herb Sendek​The game itself was a microcosm of ASU's lost season--a nice effort by a sad ... More >>

Baby Blues

ASU Pulls Out Best Win of Season With Shorthanded Thumping of USC: Arizona Loses

There's a very sound reason we don't engage in sports gambling but on the rare occasion: We learned the hard way a long time ago that we come too close too often to striking gold--but almost inevitably lose.Sun Devils surprise Trojans in LA last night​We wrote yesterday that, in our imaginary ... More >>

ASU Sun Devils Pull Off Controversial Last Inning Win In Softball Super Regionals

Top-ranked ASU found itself down to its final strike in its NCAA softball Super Regionals opener last night against Texas A&M, down 2-1 with the bases loaded.Dallas Escobedo and the Devils squeak one out​The Aggies had managed all of two hits against the Sun Devils freshman ace pitcher Dallas ... More >>

Devil's Due

ASU Softball Team Ranked Nation's Best Going Into NCAA Playoffs

Time was, Arizona State's fast-pitch softball team was a decided lesser-light, an afterthought of a program whose "rivalry" with the Arizona Wildcats was anything but. ASU ace pitcher Dallas Escobedo is one of nation's best.​ But the arrival of a new head coach, Clint Myers, a few years ag ... More >>

Arizona Basketball Schools Have Lost Weekend In La-La Land

The University of Arizona Wildcats journeyed to Los Angeles last weekend knowing that one win, especially over the UCLA Bruins, practically would clinch the Pac-10 regular season title.   Brutal weekend for Arizona head coach Sean Miller and his squad​ASU, riding a precious one-ga ... More >>

Mike Nixon, Ex-ASU Football Standout and New Times Cover-Story Boy, Cut From San Diego Chargers

www.chargers.comMike Nixon​From the beginning, Mike Nixon's successful path to the NFL was a long shot. And even though he spent more than nine months working his tail off to get there, his professional-football dreams were halted when the San Diego Chargers gave the former Arizona State Sun D ... More >>

ASU Baseball Sweeps Tempe Regional; Awaits Next Opponent

​As expected, the Arizona State baseball team is moving on. After taking three straight games as a Regional host, the Sun Devils will now play in their sixth Super Regional since 2003, the second-most in the NCAA over that time span. Ho hum, just another day at the ball field for the perennial pow ... More >>

Thrown for a Curve

UA delivered a slider when we were expecting fastball

Sympathy for the Devils

ASU Baseball’s new season opens with more questions than answers

Great Start To Weekend As ASU, Arizona Men's BB Teams Win

At the moment, most pundits are predicting that the once-powerful Pac-10 men's basketball conference will only win only one bid to next month's NCAA tournament--the automatic spot that goes to the winner of the postseason tourney in Los Angeles.​That's because the league happens to be in one of th ... More >>

Arizona Men's Basketball Teams Need to Sweep Oregon Schools at Home Tonight and Saturday

Only one thing's certain in this topsy-turvy Pacific-10 men's basketball season: From first place to last, any of the 10 teams are eminently capable of winning on any given night.   ​ ​That definitely includes the Arizona State Sun Devils and the Arizona Wildcats, both of who ... More >>

Life After Harden

Will ASU b-ball break down?

ASU's James Harden Excels and U of A's Chase Budinger Doesn't in the Devils' Victory Over the 'Cats

www.pac-10.orgJames Harden scored 27 against U of A.Arizona State's 68-56 win over the boys from Tucson in a Pac-10 tourney game that ended a few minutes ago can be attributed to one player's piss-poor performance: Arizona's Chase Budinger. The highly touted Wildcats' forward played as soft as a c ... More >>

Basketbrawl

ASU, UofA get smashmouth at Wells Fargo Arena

Hey Cardinals, Don't Pull a '92-'93 Suns or a '96 Sun Devils. Just Win It Now!

The Phoenix Suns nearly pulled it off in 1993. The 1996 Arizona State Sun Devils football squad totally had it until the final seconds. And now the Arizona Cardinals are a game away from sports immortality. (And, arguably, the biggest comeback in modern-day athletics.) So some words of advice to ... More >>

Hot Dawgs

No-name canines have a bite that’s worse than their bark

ASU Women's Basketball vs. UCLA

ASU Women's Basketball vs. USC

Buck Shot: Suns Attempt to Sweep the Cheeseheads from Milwaukee Tonight

Andrew Bogut and the Milwaukee Bucks come to town We're always trying to find trends with our hometown sports teams. For example, our genius minds figured out that the ASU Sun Devils football team sucked all season long. Same with the Phoenix Mercury and the Coyotes, thus far. So imagine our glee ... More >>

Night Frights

Here Kitty, Kitty, Kitty

Beachfront property in Tucson — going fast

Into the Fire

Dennis Erickson's a frightening choice to lead a college football program plagued by murder and NCAA violations

Pac Men

Here comes the real test for Herb and company

Pac Men

Here comes the real test for Herb and company

Naked Dinner

Magickal mystery tour

Happy Trails

Hike! For the love of dogs

Lick Them Beavers!

Notre Dame looks for payback in the Insight Bowl

BEST GROCERY STORE FOR PERVS

Safeway

Gridiron Grudge

Caliente seeks redemption against Aftershock

Root for the Home Team

ASU's "Superfan" gets called out at the old ball game

Turf War

Fiesta Bowl touches down in Tempe

How to Be a Player

Tempe lines up free week of fun and games

Devils' Advocate

ASU coach Rob Evans rocks his world

Angles in the Outfield

Fame is not the name of the game in controversy over ASU baseball field

Flashes

Beggar's Banquet

Cheesy Mick Jagger impersonation contest parallels current state of the Stones

Letters

Flashes

Pic Hits for the week

Pic Hits for the week

BATON ROGUES

SUN DEVIL BAND DIRECTOR SPURNS TWIRLERS; HOPEFULS SAY THEY GOT THE SHAFT

THE DAY THEIR DREAMS DIED

THE MEN'S GYMNASTS WERE TRUE SCHOLAR-ATHLETES. THEY WON CHANPIONSHIPS, EARNED DEGREES AND STAYED OUT OF JAIL. NO WONDER ASU KILLED THE PROGRAM.

ARIZONA'S SHOOTING STAR

RYNELDI BECENTI IS A HERO TO THE NAVAJO NATION-----AND THE BEST BASKETBALL PLAYER AT ASU